This week's postings in JfJfP.com

We’re sorry to say that this week, March 21st-27th, 2016, Donald Trump has pushed his way – has been pushed – to the front. He is inescapable. The first to attack is Richard Silverstein who says there was not the promised mass walk-out when he spoke at AIPAC – although there was a noted walk-out – see other posting.
All AIPAC wants is man with power who loves Israel

Lisa Goldman thinks that the large majority who stayed to lidsten, and applaud, demonstrates a schism amongst American Jews: those who want political influence through AIPAC and those prefer to stick to their liberal tradition:
Shame on the Jews who applauded Trump

Those Jews who did walk-out and those who demonstrated outside AIPAC received wide media coverage. We post three of the pieces in:
Being pro-Jewish trumps being pro-Israel

Trump again pops up with the handful of Americans whose response to the Brussels atrocity was not the calm of people living in Brussels but a shrill attack on Islam/Muslims, including Trump’s call for more torture, from the American right wing.
In Brussels, people stay calm

Hillary Clinton has rolled to where the power lies. She put on a shameless love-in with Israel at the AIPAC conference. Had she even heard of Palestinians in her years running US foreign affairs:
Clinton’s clients – despots and Bibi

Two people with current or former affiliation with Labour, Lord Levy and Jonathan Freedland, have attacked Labour party members as antisemitic. An assertion based on two anecdotes. The fact that the same members elected a Jewish party leader, who just won the election over his equally Jewish brother in 2010 and held the post until last May doesn’t count as fact to these two men. What they actually mean by antisemitism is being pro-Palestinian rights, but they can’t say so.
Lord Levy condemns ‘Labour antisemitism’

Both produced many letters of complaint (in which JfJfP members played a leading role) to the Guardian and Independent though most were directed at the Guardian’s Freedland:
From elected Jewish leader to antisemitism in 1 year?

None of those who see antisemitism nesting in every left-wing heart mentions the extreme provocation of Palestinians by the Israeli far-right:
Planned provocations by settlers for Purim

And it is presumed it was right-wing settlers who set fire to the house of Ibrahim Dawabshe and his wife. Ibrahim is due to be a witness for the prosecution of those arrested for the firebombing of the Dawabashe famiy which killed three people and seriously burned the surviving child.
Another firebombing, another Dawabsheh

It seems Israel’s security forces have become so convinced that any Palestinian who utters a critical word about Israel is a terrorist. What else explains the arrest of clown Mohammad Abu Sakha on his way to a school for children with learning difficulties where he teaches his clown skills. That was last December. He is being held under administrative detention. As usual, no-one knows why. There’s a petition for him for you to sign /circulate:
What clowns have imprisoned Abu Sakha?

There are very contradictory reports about whether solar power can at last provide Gaza with a sufficient and reliable energy supply. It depends on whether Israeli border staff will allow the import of solar panels, at payable prices. But nothing can provide Gaza with more space which is needed if this form of energy is to be available to all, and not just hospitals, schools and wealthier people:
Sun-rich but too space-poor for solar energy

The Regents of the University of California (UC) have taken the very illiberal decision that a document on unacceptable bigotry should treat anti-Zionism as another face of antisemitism.  Of course sometimes it is. But the prohibition of anti-Zionist speech is a useful way of silencing Palestinians who make some Jewish students ‘feel unsafe’:
Yes, say UC Regents, anti-Zionism IS antisemitic

The stabbings, or attempted stabbings, by lone-wolf Palestinians as does the immediate shooting dead of the assailant or suspect. B’Tselem produces a video of one such young man, who has been shot and lies on the ground, being casually shot again in the head to kill him. This is murder:
Another casual street killing by IDF